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                <text>&lt;p&gt;A collection of archival material (letters, diaries, articles, auto/biographical accounts) collected from different archives (cf. &lt;a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/sources/archives/"&gt;list&lt;/a&gt;) that showcase the life of Charlotte Cushman, one of the most successful US American actresses of the nineteenth century.&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
&lt;p&gt;We invite you to either look for specific items via the tag cloud at the bottom of the page or the search function at the top, &lt;a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/items/browse?collection=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;browse all items&lt;/a&gt; in this collection, or explore thematic compilations of selected items in our "&lt;a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/exhibits" target="_blank" rel="noopener"&gt;Exhibits&lt;/a&gt;."&lt;/p&gt;&#13;
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&lt;h6 style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/44bccce1e23bf9efe34d0078d3cc97f0.JPG"&gt;&lt;img title="Item Locations" alt="Item Locations" src="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/44bccce1e23bf9efe34d0078d3cc97f0.JPG" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="349.5" height="324.5" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(&lt;a href="http://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/"&gt;Palladio&lt;/a&gt; visualization, Dec 2021: letter correspondence for items&lt;br /&gt;that have values defined for "location sender" AND "location recipient," size nodes)&lt;/h6&gt;&#13;
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            <text>"The lovers of good Theatrical representations are offered a great feast &lt;em&gt;to-night&lt;/em&gt; at the Walnut street, for the Benefit of the Directress, Miss Charlotte Cushman. We have reason to believe that the theatre going public duly appreciate the strenuous efforts of this lady, during the past season, to revive and cherish the &lt;u&gt;L egitimate&lt;/u&gt; [sic] Drama, and if she has not succeeded to the extent which such exertions and talent merit, it has been because of drawbacks not to be overcome in a &lt;em&gt;single&lt;/em&gt; season. But we hope to see abundant evidence, in the character and number of the audience &lt;em&gt;to-night&lt;/em&gt;, that the claims of Miss Cushman as regards her standing in her profession, and her devotion to the arduous duties desolving upon her as Directress of the Theatre, are&amp;nbsp; justly and gratefully remembered. Those who love to see "a &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; play, &lt;em&gt;well&lt;/em&gt; performed," will be at the Walnut street &lt;em&gt;to nigh&lt;/em&gt;t [sic] &lt;span class="st"&gt;–&lt;/span&gt; those who would cherish and sustain dramatic genius will be there &lt;span class="st"&gt;– and those who know and appreciate the &lt;em&gt;private worth&lt;/em&gt; of the beneficiary, will certainly lend their countencance to encourage a lady so full of claims upon their sympathy and kind interest."&lt;/span&gt;</text>
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&lt;div&gt;E. "Communication." &lt;i&gt;Pennsylvania Inquirer&lt;/i&gt;, 1 Feb. 1843. &lt;i&gt;Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers&lt;/i&gt;, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/GT3010997991/NCNP?u=bayreuth&amp;amp;sid=NCNP&amp;amp;xid=d9e9b748. Accessed 26 Feb. 2020.&lt;/div&gt;&#13;
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&lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Credit&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&#13;
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